Order, disorder and criticality [[electronic resource] ] : advanced problems of phase transition theory / / editor, Yurij Holovatch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449883103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2004
• ISBN: 1-281-87700-X; 9786611877002; 981-256-544-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HolovatchYurij
• Disciplina: 530.4/74
• Soggetti: Phase transformations (Statistical physics); Critical phenomena (Physics); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Pref. by Yurij Holovatch and Ivan Franko.; "This book is based on the review lectures that were given in Lviv (Ukraine) in March 2002 at the 'Ising lectures'--a traditional annual workshop on phase transitions and critical phenomena which aims to bring together scientists working in the field of phase transitions with university students and those who are interested in the subject"--P. 4 of cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1 MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF THE ISING MODEL AND ITS GENERALIZATIONS: AN INTRODUCTION Yuri Kozitsky; CHAPTER 2 RELAXATION IN QUANTUM SPIN CHAINS: FREE FERMIONIC MODELS Dragi Karevski; CHAPTER 3 QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS IN ALTERNATING TRANSVERSE ISING CHAINS Oleg Derzhko; CHAPTER 4 PHASE TRANSITIONS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM POTTS MODELS Bertrand Berche and Christophe Chatelain; CHAPTER 5 SCALING OF MIKTOARM STAR POLYMERS Christian von Ferber; CHAPTER 6 FIELD THEORETIC APPROACHES TO THE SUPERCONDUCTING PHASE TRANSITION Flavio S. Nogueira and Hagen Kleinert; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book reviews some of the classic aspects in the theory of phasetransitions and critical phenomena, which has a longhistory. Recently, these aspects are attracting much attention due toessential ; new contributions. The topics presented in this bookinclude: mathematical theory of the Ising model; equilibrium andnon-equilibrium criticality of one-dimensional quantum spin chains;influence of structural disorder on the critical behaviour of thePotts model; criticality, fractality and multifractality of linkedpolymers; field-theoretical approaches in the superconducting phasetransitions.